George SteinerThinkers

Ecstasy is best when shared — the whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Man (human) is an accomplice to that which leaves him indifferent.

Pornography subverts this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

Writing is opposing.